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Show Four Balloons Have Not Been Heard From Since Monday St. Louis, Oct. 20. Six of the international inter-national balloous are known to have landed, two In Wisconsin, -one in Michigan and three in Canada. It is bHlecd here that the other four are down, but no reports have been received re-ceived from them. .Messages from North Bay, Ont., report re-port a balloon believed to be the (Jer-mania, (Jer-mania, landed in the forest near Pom-ngaslng, Pom-ngaslng, Ont. The aeronauts who made the trip, sent a messenger asking ask-ing aid to bring the gasbag to civilization. civili-zation. So far (he most exciting aerial voyages voy-ages reported came from LleuL Vogt and William Asman. aide, in the Hamburg Ham-burg III. They landed iu Lake NTpl-sln, NTpl-sln, north of Toronto, about 850 inUeB from St Iouls. Because of the lack of ballast, thr aernauts descended IS.iiOO feet with terrific force. Asmans left arm was bioken and an artery cut. Word for medical aid was sent to Powasson. Ont. and Lieut. Vosi obtained hel.i from Indians in savins; his balloon. Kxcr-pt fnr the slRhtlnn of the Hal vet la by the Million Club in Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, early Tuesday morn inc. no word has come from the Swiss entry since it left heio Monday. Other balloons not heard from are f.ie Azurea, Dus-sc-ldorff II and America II. The Tour balloons have beeu away from St. Louis more than sixty hours. Aeronaut's Narrow Escape. Chlcaco, Oct. 20 Jacob Faure. pilot pi-lot of tho Condor, one of the balloons that started In the race at St. Louis Monday. and his aide, Ernest Schiiioick. arrived in Chicago last J nis'nl from Twin Cities, Wis. where they landed Tuesday aiteinoon. after being twenty-one hours In the air. Srhmolck was injured in landing, his right arm belnc lacerated when caught hetween the rigging of the balloon and the basket. While over Lak- M'.chisau. Tuesday morning, th? men bad a nairow escape es-cape from being precipitate J into the water They were 3.000 feet hi ;h when they struck the cool air over the lake. This cooled the oxygen, causing It to condense con-dense rapidly. In ten nrnutes they dropped more than f, 000 feet. From that tlnu- until tbev landed about five hours later, their lives were In jeopardy. They tossed om bug after bag of ballast until thy established their equilibrium about -lo fett above the water b trailing their guide rope. |